Description of organisation

Vievis Children’s Day Centre is the governmental enterprise from Elektrenai municipality. The purpose of the centre is to provide social care, psychological, spiritual and material help for children from socially disadvantaged background (from the families-in need, from the social risk group families, or single-parent families etc.) The tasks of the centre is to educate the child and make him prepared to be a self-independent person who is responsible for his own behavior; to encourage the family to work on the welfare of the child; to organize cultural, sport, art activities for children; to organize activities for children occupation after school; to organize prevention against drug, alcohol, nicotine abuse etc.
The main activities of the centre are as follow: after school activities (various art, music, sport, cultural workshops) food provision (lunch after school), help doing homework, organise trips and excursions, organizing camps etc.
Nowadays the centre is being attended by 20 children from social risk families. On the list we have 42 children. There are 6 staff members in the day centre: the director, two social workers, a cook, a cleaning lady and a driver. Some of them work part time.

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Cultural differences
• Geographical obstacles
• Social obstacles